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Some luck lies in not getting what you thought you wanted but getting what you have, which once you have got it you may be smart enough to see is what you would have wanted had you known.
Garrison Keillor
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Garrison Keillor
Age: 82
Born: 1942
Born: August 7
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It was luxuries like air conditioning that brought down the Roman Empire. With air conditioning their windows were shut, they couldn't hear the barbarians coming.
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A girl in a bikini is like having a loaded pistol on your coffee table - There's nothing wrong with them, but it's hard to stop thinking about it.
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It's confidence it has to be something good about getting old. One of the things is that you just don't stress about some stuff that made you so worried.
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Writing is the main gig and teaching and performing are sidelines, an excuse for not writing more. Working on a novel and on an opera make me seriously want to retire and find a volunteer job as a docent at the zoo explaining to schoolchildren where frogs go in the winter.
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To choose Norm Coleman over Walter Mondale is like going to a great steakhouse and ordering the tuna sandwich.
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I was brought up imagining that cream rises to the top, merit wins out, the race is to the swift and riches to men of understanding, but it ain't necessarily so. The swift stand a better chance if they are also beautiful.
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In romance, as in life, you only learn when you're losing.
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We come from people who brought us up to believe that life is a struggle, and if you should feel really happy, be patient: this will pass.
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A cruise ship is a floating town of lazy people.
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As for family values, they are whatever they are - some families are tight, others are blown away like dandelion puffs. A main value in Minnesota is still: don't waste my time, don't B.S. me, I wasn't born yesterday.
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Scripture doesn't promise that God will remove temptation, only that you'll be given strength to withstand it.
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Being Lutheran, Mother believed that self-pity is a deadly sin and so is nostalgia, and she had no time for either
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People always are encouraging about a terrible loss, so that sometimes the loser would like to strangle them.
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Jesus said the meek would inherit the earth, but so far all we've gotten is Minnesota and North Dakota.
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Even in a time of elephantine vanity and greed, one never has to look far to see the campfires of gentle people.
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Nothing you do for children is ever wasted. They seem not to notice us, hovering, averting our eyes, and they seldom offer thanks, but what we do for them is never wasted.
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We thank you [the soldiers recently returned from the middle east] for your service.
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Honesty is a rare commodity in a palace, and that is why so many fairy-tale marriages end up on the rocks.
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Don't pour the oil directly into my navel, pour it on my sternum and let it run down into my navel, you ignorant peasant.
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The highlight of my childhood was making my brother laugh so hard that food came out of his nose.
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